Bela observes Ganesh Chaturthi on Monday, 14 September 2026, along with the rest of Bihar.
Temples near Bela
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Bela is a village in Belhar mandal, Banka district, Bihar. It has a population of 3,314 spread across 607 households with a literacy rate of 26.1%.
By population, Bela ranks #9 of 172 villages in Belhar mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Bela is a village of 3,314 people in 607 households (Census 2011) in Belhar block, Banka district, Bihar, the 9th-largest of 172 villages in Belhar block. Literacy is 26%, 23 points below the block average of 50% and the sex ratio is 862 women per 1,000 men. It lies 219 km from the Banka district centre, 0 km from Bela, the nearest town, 2 km from Dharminiya railway station (straight-line distances). The pincode is 813202, served by Belhar post office; the LGD village code is 241607. The nearest hospital or health centre is SR HOSPITAL, 5 km away. The sarpanch is PRIYA KUMARI, and the village votes in Hayaghat assembly constituency, represented by MLA Ram Chandra Prasad. The population is estimated at 3,907 in 2026, up 18% since the 2011 Census.
Gram panchayat: Rajpur →
Source: Census of India 2011, Village Directory. Facilities may have changed since.
Water supply timings, gram sabha dates, camps and drives — residents post them here and they expire on their own.
1 Mosque, 4 Temples mapped by OpenStreetMap contributors. Residents can add the village jatara and temple festival under Events.
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Sources: Office of the Registrar General & Census Commissioner of India (Census 2011 + Population Projections 2011-2036) · International Institute for Population Sciences (NFHS-5) · Election Commission of India · data.gov.in (Jal Jeevan Mission, PMAY-G, SBM-G dashboards). Projections may differ from on-the-ground reality by ±20% for individual villages. An asterisk next to a sex-ratio value (—*) flags a Census 2011 figure outside the plausible range of 300–2000 ♀/1000♂; the underlying source row is suppressed pending review.
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